RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, Records, Eau Claire Depot, 1880-1969, Eau Claire Micro27, Eau Claire Area Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

“Enrollment Campaigns for Woman Workers, 1942.” Monthly Labor Review, March 1943, 488-90.

Furnas, J.C. "Woman Power." Ladies Home Journal, November 1942, 20.

Maule, Frances. "Womanpower Number." Independent Woman, September 1943, 257.

Moffert, Minnie L. “Mobilizing Womanpower: An Open Letter to the Manpower Commission.” Independent Woman, December 1942, 356, 380.

“More Women Must Go to Work as 3,200,000 New Jobs Beckon.” Newsweek, 6 September 1943, 74-5.

“OPA in Your Community.” Independent Woman, July 1941, 215-6.

Parker, Dorothy. “Are We Women or Are We Mice?” The Readers’ Digest, July 1943, 71-2.

“Policy of War Manpower Commission on Woman Workers.” National Labor Review, April 1943, 669-671.

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“The Margin Now is Womanpower.” Fortune, February 1943, 99-102, 222-4.

U.S. Employment Service, Occupational Analysis Section, Occupations Suitable for Women, February 1942.

U.S. Office of War Information. Magazine Section. War Jobs for Women. 1942.

U.S. Office of War Information. In cooperation with U.S. Army. U.S. Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. U.S. Coast Guard. War Manpower Commission. Women in the war, for the final push to victory: Women needed in war plants, in essential civilian jobs, and in the Women’s Reserves of the armed forces. 1944.

U.S. Office of War Information. Office of Program Coordination. Service for War Advertising in Newspapers. 1943.

U.S. War Manpower Commission. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. Training Women for War Work: Methods and Suggestions for Expediting the Job. 1943.

U.S. War Manpower Commission. Bureau of Training. Training Womanpower. 1943.

U.S. War Manpower Commission. U.S. Employment Service. Answers to Questions Women Ask About War Work. 1943.

U.S. War Manpower Commission. Women’s Advisory Committee. The Wartime Responsibility of Women’s Organizations. January 1944.

UNITED STATES CROP CORP

Advertisement for International Harvester Training an Army of “Tractorettes.” Life, 31 August 1942.

"War Work of the U.S. Women's Bureau." Monthly Labor Review. December 1942, 1183.

“Woman With a Hoe.” Christian Science Monitor Magazine, 9 June 1945, 5.

Hall, Florence. “The Nation’s Crops Need You.” Independent Woman, July 1945, 187, 203.

CHILDCARE ISSUES

“8 Hour Orphans: Providing Care for Children Whose Mothers Must Become War Workers.” Saturday Evening Post, 10 October 1942, 20-1, 105-6.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. “American Women in the War.” The Readers’ Digest, January 1944, 42-4

U.S. Office of War Information. Does Our Community Need to Provide Day Care for the Children of Working Mothers?: A Discussion Leaflet. 1943.

“Wartime Care of Working Mothers’ Children in Minneapolis.” Monthly Labor Review, July 1943, 107-8

“Women Drop Out: They’re needed at home to care for the children during vacation, so the lady riveters are leaving the aircraft plants.” Business Week, 21 August 1943, 88-9.

ON THE JOB

"A New Headache: Infiltration of women workers into war plants turns management's eyes forcibly from employee morale to morals." Business Week, 17 October 1942.

"Females in Factories." Time Magazine, 17 July 1942, 60.

"Good Night Ladies!" Newsweek, 23 August 1943, 46.

“Mrs. Casey Jones: ODT survey shows greater need of women on railroads as labor situation tightens.” Business Week, 28 November 1942, 83-4.

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"Postwar Horizons." Newsweek, 23 August 1943, 52.

Schweitzer, Mary J. "World War II and Female Labor Force Participation Rates," The Journal of Economic History 40 (March 1980), 93.

"Sex in the Factory." Time Magazine, 14 September 1942, 21.

"Standards For Women's Employment in Wartime." Monthly Labor Review, June 1943, 1120.

Uniroyal, Inc. Uniroyal materials, 1942-1991. Eau Claire Area Research, Special Collections, McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, University History Collection 255, Location: 15/5c, Folder 8.

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U.S. Federal Security Agency. Office of Education. Girls and Women’s Occupations: Selected References June 1940 to July 1943. 1944.

“What You Should Know About Women.” Business Week, 16 May 1942, 20-1.

“With Women at Work, the Factory Changes.” The New York Times Magazine, 24 January 1943, 4-5.

"Women at Work For Their Uncle Sam." Life Magazine, 19 January 1942, 58.

WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME

Anderson, Mary. “The Postwar Role of American Women.” American Economic Review, supplement, March 1944, 237-244.

Banning, Margaret Culkin. “Will They Go Back Home?” The Rotarian, September 1943, 28-30.

Brown, Cecil. “What’s Going To Happen To Our Women Workers?” Good Housekeeping, December 1943, 42, 78-82.

Cassidy, Rosalind. “Careers for Women.” Journal of Educational Sociology 17 (April 1944): 479-91.

Davenel, George F. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Independent Woman, July 1945, 182-3, 201.

Giles, Nell. “What About the Women?” Ladies Home Journal, June 1944, 22-3, 157-9, 161.

"Give Back Their Jobs." Woman's Home Companion, October 1943, 6.

Greenbaum, Lucy. “The Women Who ‘Need’ to Work.” The New York Times Magazine, 29 April 1945, 16, 43.

Maulsby, Ann. “To Keep Them Men.” The New York Times Magazine, 11 February, 1945, 7.

Mezerik, A.G. “Getting Rid of the Women.” Atlantic, June 1945, 79-83.

Miller, Frieda S. “What’s Become of Rosie the Riveter?” The New York Times Magazine, 5 May 1946, 21, 47-8.

Palmer, Gladys L. "Women's Place in Industry." Current History, January 1944, 19.

"Recommendations onSeparation of Women from Wartime Jobs." Monthly labor Review, September 1945, 506.

Stratton, Dorothy C. “Women After the War.” Independent Woman, October 1945, 279, 295.

Thompson, Dorothy. "The Stake of Women in Full Postwar Employment." Ladies Home Journal, April 1944, 6, 183.

Warne, Colston. “The Reconversion of Women.” Current History, March 1945, 200-06.

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CIVIC AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

"A Matter of Patriotism." Newsweek, 16 August 1954.

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National Parent Teacher Magazine. October 1953, 106.

National Parent Teacher Magazine. April 1959.

National Parent Teacher Magazine. January 1954, 3.

Skocpol, Theda and Morris P. Fiorina, Civic Engagement in American Democracy. (Washington, D.C. and New York: Brookings Institution Press, 1999), 257.

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CONCLUSION

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"Test: A Tentative-and Probably-Yes." Newsweek, 13 November 1961, 21-2.

U.S. National Resources Planning Board. Demobilization and Readjustment. Report of the Conference on Postwar Readjustment of Civilian and Military Personnel. June 1943.

Wynn, Neil A. "The 'Good War': The Second World War and Postwar American Society." Journal of Contemporary History, 31 (July 1996), 478.

STATISTICS

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“Ordnance Workers in 1918 and 1943.” Monthly Labor Review, December 1943, 1074-81.

Perkins, Frances. “Women’s Work in Wartime.” Monthly Labor Review, April 1943, 661-5.

Robinson, Mary. “Woman Workers in Two Wars.” Monthly Labor Review, October 1943, 650-71.

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U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. A Report of the Sixteenth Decennial Census of the United States, Census of Population: 1940, Volume II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 49, Wisconsin. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. A Report of the Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States, Census of Population: 1950, Volume II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 49, Wisconsin. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952.

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